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They believe in themselves and have the skills needed to achieve their dreams. They are prepared to speak truth to power and collaborate for change. So we say this every morning is actually saying it this way is a little bit different because we do it the students do it and it's when I leave the school so you get a little this stuff but this is these are our values when our students leave they are going to feel loved they're going to feel supported and that they belong and we want them to be prepared to be able to be anything they want to be and work with whomever to collaborate for change. So when you look at us this is a little snapshot. So we are at 885 students pretty much evenly distributed around the three grade levels and we are a beautiful tapestry of backgrounds and we are always constantly thinking about what works for whom and under what conditions because we have a beautiful tapestry of differences.
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So, um that's our annual actuarial study that we um they study the cost of the liability for the health and welfare for all the retirees. Um that um once they retire, they still have health and welfare till they reach the Medicare age. So every year um the auditors always will ask if we've done a study um so we go through this company well we've used a few different ones but where they will publish the study that'll be at a future meeting just saying like this is what it will cost the district over the next you know 20 years to pay these benefits and then we have our trust which you've seen other times where we have the balances in the trust to cover that cost. So it's just a report that kind of summarizes all the activity it's required for the health and welfare benefits for retirees.
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So um with many people or in a pod classroom um she can hear loud noises and be distracted easily and she can also distract others easily. So I think it's important to have an enclosed classroom with four walls. Um, and I believe with less less distractions, my daughter will learn better, to be in a calmer state to learn because a lot of times people with autism are overstimulated or under stimulated and not at the optimal learning state. Um, so this way teacher can focus on student learning instead of chasing my daughter. And so another thing is that the new school at Somerdale doesn't have a toilet in the classroom or a sink. And it's really important to to have a sink in the classroom for hygiene purposes and for potty training. My daughter um tends to take off her pull-up after they are soiled and she takes her shoes off frequently too.
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And so there was a year where she was doing blue jackets, not just for Shasta, but for three other schools. And she was able to manage it without ever missing a beat at what she was doing at our school. Um she's tenacious. Um there is nothing that gets by her. So, if you are absent, she will find out why you're absent and she will make sure that you are back at school as quickly as possible. Um, she's totally aware of all their surroundings. When um we had cameras installed in front of our office to make sure that we only kept um people coming in that were supposed to be in there, we didn't need that because we had Kika. She could see the people coming and knew exactly who they were, knew what car they drove, knew who the kids were, and knew why they were late to school that day.
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Although it went super fast, like the start of all road trips, the start is one of the best parts because we were all excited to start, even if it meant we had to start growing up. Thank you. And now I would like to introduce sophomore class president Karina Smith. [Applause] [Music] Good evening, everybody. Today is the day that we've been working toward. After late nights, early mornings, and everything in between, we're finally here. Sophomore year was something special. A year of growth, of friendships deepening, and small moments that became unforgettable. From the chaos of chemistry to the excitement of football games and dances, sophomore year gave us memories that shaped who we are today. Sophomore year was also the year that we started learning how to drive, not just literally, but through life. At first, we were just figuring out how to even start the car, balancing new classes, new friendships, and new expectations.
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Sure, we've learned things like the scientific method, the hero's journey, y= mx plusb, and many important events in history. But nothing compares to what we've learned after spending our time in the classroom. You've taught us the different kinds of knowledge we'll carry on for the rest of our lives. Dignity, respect, kindness, courage, and care. All thanks to you for modeling what it means to not just be good students, but also good people. As to our staff, thank you for being the other unsung heroes we couldn't function without. Your devoted promises, everlasting care, and commitment to us isn't appreciated enough. Thank you to our determined custodians for keeping our classrooms and bathrooms clean, and our hilarious security for keeping the hallways safe. And thank you to our kind attendance ladies who've seen the 15 doctor's appointments in our absences. We all know the truth might have been bent on those ones.
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and Megan Wilson. One long-standing tradition of our chapter's induction ceremony is to announce next year's president. A president is chosen by the faculty council during the selection process. The council seeks out a president who is most excellent model for the four pillars of scholarship, character, leadership, and service. Our Next president was viewed by the faculty council as a well-rounded individual motivated by a genuine desire to help others and to see society advance and grow with compassion and empathy. The council also identified true leadership through this person's efforts to advocate for other students, especially those who feel unseen. It is my honor and my pleasure to announce next year's NH president is Valentina [Applause] This concludes our NHS Dudson ceremony. In a moment, members will pose for a few photos. We invite everyone to move to the senior calf for a light refreshment. We thank everyone for attending and ask once again to congratulate our new National Honor Society members.
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Okay. We were just joking because I double checked with Judy to see if I was going first or last, but it's okay. Can wing it? Oh, are they? Madame President, members of the board, Dr. Wyman, Miss Judy. I'm happy tonight to be here to celebrate Heather Domed. Heather is a second grade teacher at Harmon and she has been with us about 13 years. Heather, so Heather has served a lot of different roles on our campus, but um when she moved into second grade, something something magical happened. She just really hit her stride. And when you talk about an educator that knows every single kid in their classroom, that is this lady. I can walk into her room and I can ask her about any kid. She can tell me where they're at in reading and math, how she is intervening, the progress that they have made.
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That's true. And our classified staff. Uh well, they're the reason the lights come on, the wheels keep turning, and the day stays on track. Every role matters. Together, they create the kind of schools where people go go allin so students can go all out. And that's my report. Thank you, Dr. Litwin. And I move on to item five, governing board members report. Member Rothschild. Good evening, everyone. And um first wanted to take an opportunity to congratulate all of our amazing students, teachers, um classified staff. We know that there's lots of work that goes on throughout the year. Um but this particular month, it's just been overwhelmingly amazing to see all of the progress, hard work, just the smiling faces, the winning teams, athletics, academics, just amazing. So wanted to applaud everyone uh for that. Um so much activity going on yesterday. Uh went to um uh Desert Sunrise with the intent of helping to uh judge a debate and was met with the surprise of a practice safety drill.
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um few former uh select select men committees uh prior to me getting involved in in in politics uh said Ashlin was always going to be a bedroom community and that's all it was ever going to be. So when they started the foundation of this town when Farford started building and changing the landscape of Ashland um there was no commercial growth even thought of. As a matter of fact, it was put in obeyance. I don't know if too many people realize this, but Ashland's uh workman circle area uh Captain A's Elonquin Trail, that was going to be a brewery. And the town said no because they didn't want to provide water andor sewer at the time for that growth. Can you imagine what that type of what that building or that business would have done for Ashland if it came into town? Not only would it have provided growth, it would provided jobs and some of these people would have stayed on, you know, long for a long time.
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Thank you. Congratulations. Yeah, that's amazing news and a really nice recognition and we have a lot of great educators here in Ashland, but we're so proud of you right now. This is amazing. Great job. Thank you. And you all can leave as well. Okay, my Makea-Wish people, it is awesome. Hello, my friends. So nice to see you again. Are you proposing another trip? We are. Yes. Imagine that. Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit about how it went this year? Yeah. So, I am Satie. I was the Give Kids the World's coordinator this year and all of us um had the amazing opportunity to go on the trip this past November and we're hoping to be able to travel again this year. So, this would be our 11th year. Oh, I'm Sammy. I'm the secretary of the club this year. So, this would be our 11th year attending the trip, which usually takes place in November.
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Uh please enjoy. Get ready to do, you know, get that SC dance going on as we play for you. Mighty mighty Boston. The impression that I [Music] get, the little wonky always happens. Heat. Heat. [Music] la. Hey [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Down [Music] here la. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Happy birthday. [Music] birthday. Oh yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Lou. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Thank you so much for coming out. Uh again, PTS store. Please enjoy it. Thank you so much for coming out. We can't wait to see you all next year. [Applause]
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Um that concludes the report today, but if you have any questions, we would be happy to answer. Any questions from the committee? The superintendent has something. I just wanted to recognize Shane. Tonight is his last meeting with us. He is graduating on May 31st with the class of 2025. He's headed to Brown University in the fall. And really just want to commend him as a student representative for the school committee. he has really expanded what you bring to the table for students and how you highlighted student life this year so that the public and everyone watching really has a better insight to all the good things that kids are doing at Greenfield High School. So, Thank you very much on behalf of the committee as well. Have a good night. Okay, we'll move on to reports of the administration and the business manager. Good evening.
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Um, that concludes the report today, but if you have any questions, we would be happy to answer. Any questions from the committee? The superintendent has something. I just wanted to recognize Shane. Tonight is his last meeting with us. He is graduating on May 31st with the class of 2025. He said headed to Brown University in the fall. and really just want to commend him as a student representative for the school committee. He has really expanded what you bring to the table for students and how you highlighted student life this year so that the public and everyone watching really has a better insight to all the good things that kids are doing at Greenfield High School. So, thank you. Thank you very much on behalf of the committee as well. Have a good night. Okay, we'll move on to reports of the administration and the business manager.
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He's working on that. So I think that's your question. I think we're going to have to see where our budget falls next year because we do have stuff a lot of hardware that's that 2018 and it it's getting there. So, I know he's going he's starting to address some of those things and the backup server was being addressed. I know we have to address our phone system, which I believe is being addressed. It just has to be migrated over to the new server. So, I want to see where we go this year. I'm I'm hoping we clear the hurdle, but we're going to need money in the future. Matt threw some numbers out. I'm not going to discuss those because we don't know what actually we may need to be. But we've got 311,000 this year, I believe, is what the number is. But the subscriptions of what we're doing are are pretty substantial if you actually look at the breakdown.
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We do have a couple new students though they're not on the books. However, we have had a seven-year partnership with Yukon a science educator professor uh Dr. John Setlage. He was one of the professors from some of our students and for seven years except for a couple in the co uh we've been hatching chicks. This year we did some ducks. So these are our little ducklings. They we had 13 to start across the four seventh grade science classrooms and six of them hatched uh last week and our one of our parsy Cole is taking them to her farm tomorrow. When the chicken eggs, we have 48 of them. Um they don't all hatch, but when they do hatch, she'll be taking them too. Um it was awesome. the little guy, these are all pictures from today. The little guy on the left, he was doing the morning announcements with us, which is very loud.
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Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much, Terry. You're like a little computer. Scary sometimes. Okay. Any other questions on the Morris? We'll call B, please. I I I I. Next item. Let me get out my words here. All right. We have uh item six, hearing of persons wishing to address the board. I'm just going to read this really quickly. The public may address the board on any matter pertaining to the school district that is not on the agenda. Members of the public may sign up requesting to address the board by filling out a request form and turning it into the board president prior to the start of the meeting unless otherwise determined by the board.
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So they will really need to wash their hands. And the toilet at Somerdale is 55 students to two potties. At Toyan right now is 15 students to two potties. There's not enough toilets to go around for all the students. There's a size issue too because my daughter is only four years old. She will need a smallsiz potty and I think the potties at Summerdale are a little bit bigger in between a regular size one and a small one. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Chin. The next speaker is Miguel Torres. Uh, good evening. My name is Miguel Torres. I'm here today to advocate for the needs of my six-year-old son, Sebastian, and his classmates in Miss Shanti's K through 2 grade special day class with regard to the bathroom needs. My son, like other students in his class, are still using to still learning to use the toilet and do not have the skills to use the bathroom independently.
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Um, she uh she is the glue that holds Shasta together. Um, I have an amazing office manager, an amazing health aid, but really um, at the end of the day when you come into the office, she is the one that's going to be greet you first and know everything that you need to get out of what we have at school. Um, I created a position for her because I saw a need for somebody who spoke Spanish in our office and um, she was reluctant at first um, because she didn't think her Spanish was good enough, but she has become an integral part of what we do at Shasta. Um she is the absolute best and that's why we have so many staff members here because they recognize what she does not just for the school but for the school community and I can't tell you enough Kika how much I appreciate what you do and how much I love working with you every day.
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Some days felt like cruising down an open highway, windows down, everything easy. Other days, the road twisted without warning, and we had no idea what was around the corner. But through it all, we found our place. We started finding each other. And slowly, the unfamiliar started to feel like home. The people we leaned on became our co-pilots. and the memories we made became mile markers that we'll always look back on. By the end, the skies started to get a little cloudier, hinting that bigger challenges were ahead. But if sophomore year taught us anything, it's that no matter what, we know how to keep moving forward. So tonight, we celebrate not just how far we've come, but how ready we are for whatever is next. Congratulations, class of 2025. We did it. I would now like to introduce our junior class president, Lauren Sangok. People will tell you that junior year of high school is the most challenging.
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